SS Exodus - Cultural Impact

Cultural Impact

  • In 1958, the book Exodus by Leon Uris, based partly on the story of the ship, was published, though the ship Exodus in the book is not the same but a smaller one and the "real" Exodus has been renamed.
  • In 1960, the film Exodus directed by Otto Preminger and starring Paul Newman, based on the above novel, was released.
  • In 1997, the documentary film, Exodus 1947, directed by Elizabeth Rodgers and Robby Henson and narrated by Morley Safer, was broadcast nationally in the U.S. on PBS television.

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